Spring Garden Acre is a blog about our family's gardening adventures. We call our place Spring Garden Acre, because we live on Spring Road with about an acre. We're located in zone 6b of south central PA. We grow peaches, berries, vegetables and keep a few chickens for eggs and meat.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Our season's first blueberries

Today we peeled back the netting and harvested our very first blueberries. We planted 3 new bushes this year. They won't produce until next year. Even with 6 bushes, I don't feel like we'll have enough, but we sure enjoy what we have. The boy's actually fought over them (we're cherishing that moment!); there weren't many berries -only 5 ounces.

We love it! It's harvest time! This gardening, homesteading, producing your own food experience, the garden, the eggs and meat, it's all such a good time; and the first blueberries today are definitely a highlight.

It looks like the boys had a good time harvesting those berries! You reminded me that I really have to get some netting on my raspberries and blackberries tomorrow. They are loaded with berries and will be ripening soon. I really don't want to share with the birds!

Wish I have those berries too. I can't stop smiling about the boys fighting over it, must be very sweet and juicy. I am getting ready too with alpine strawberries trying to sow as many seeds as I could. It won't be enough for my boys too if I don't plant some more.